Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840 Dual-Core CPU Review. Page 4

The second article of the series devoted to the dual-core processors from the leading x86 CPU manufacturers will tell about Intel Smithfield based solution which is none other but a combination of two Prescott processor dies on single semi-conductor silicon. Will the dual-core Pentium Extreme Edition become a worthy competitor to AMD Athlon 64 X2?

Intel Desktop Processors

In order to make the difference between Pentium D and Pentium Extreme Edition clear, we would like to offer you a comparative table where we compare these two new solutions against a few other ones from the Pentium 4 family: